Ketamine experiences

[Bernc1]

How does Ketamine make YOU feel: input would be GREATLY appreciated

It was recently suggested to me by a pain management doctor that I go on Ketamine. I'm very familiar with Opiates (mostly oxycodone and do use it) but for the most part (besides Cannabis), I don't know much about other drugs (besides one time stints with 2 other drugs when I was a teen....concerning that alls I can say is I'm glad they made me sick and I never did them again).

Overall, drugs scare me quite a bit. Even my 1st 5 mg oxy scared the heck out of me until I found out (unfortunately) that I did like it a bit too much and now take a ridiculous amount.

Anyway, this Ketamine issue actually made me "ditch" my last PM doctor but mostly because when I asked what it was (I had truly never even heard of it) he tossed a "post it" across his desk at me with the words "KETAMINE FOR RSD" and told me to "go home and Google it" after pretty much calling me a "hopeless case". Enough said about that.

In the meantime I've been hearing that it actually CAN work wonders for pain (especially the pain caused by my disorder).

I'm basically just looking for a bit of input since when I got home that day and did my little "Google search" all pi*sed off alls I saw was "SPECIAL K" and it's hallucinatory effects and I have always been scared to death of any hallucinatory drugs.

So, (even though I know everyone is different), if you've used it either recreationally or medicinally I'd REALLY appreciate finding out how it made you feel. Thanks in advance

 

[dopamimetic]

This is an odd reaction of your doc, but yes - Ketamine can be really good at augmenting opioids and has pain killing properties by itself.. personally, I find it to be safer than an opioid pain killer somewhat, because you are actually under-dosing it greatly in relation to the dosages used for anesthesia.. Actually I think, ketamine should be used much more for pain instead or with opioids.. it's a relatively new practice and here in Europe people have a hard time to actually find a doc even knowing about that!

Ketamine is much less addictive than any opioid (if it's addictive at all) and it can actually induce neurogenesis too.. it has 1) a different route of action to kill pain and 2) it will potentiate opioids / might alleviate tolerance build-up.

 

[Bernc1]

This is an odd reaction of your doc, but yes - Ketamine can be really good at augmenting opioids and has pain killing properties by itself.. personally, I find it to be safer than an opioid pain killer somewhat, because you are actually under-dosing it greatly in relation to the dosages used for anesthesia.. Actually I think, ketamine should be used much more for pain instead or with opioids.. it's a relatively new practice and here in Europe people have a hard time to actually find a doc even knowing about that!

Thanks so much for your response. But yes, it wasn't so much his recommendation that "got to me" but rather his demeanor. He's not even "just a doctor" (yet I did see him monthly and he was my sole PM doctor) but also a surgeon and had performed two procedures on me prior to this incident. He wasn't the sweetest man to say the least but very reputable with an extremely high success rate.

Perhaps I lowered his "self worth" or esteem when I told him that his latest attempt at "curing me" failed??? It was a neurostimulator implant and alls it did was made me feel like I was zapping myself all day long. They do work for some, but not for me and it wasn't as though I didn't want to be helped otherwise I wouldn't have endured the pain that came to me by having it implanted.

My reason for asking this question now is because although he was....well, as he was (so as not to use any foul launguage)....I now have a great doctor (haven't yet gotten to see my new pain management doctor yet though) and when I mentioned it to him he DID feel my old doctors behavior was wrong but really didn't think much about Ketamine being an option. Kind of like a shrug of the shoulders and "why not"?

As for the tossing of the "post it" to me? A nurse even witnessed it and he spoke only to her saying: "I feel she's hopeless and Ketamine may be her last resort". SHE even apologized FOR him and I did report him although I doubt much was done. Asking a patient to do a google search is ALWAYS wrong as the things I read? They scared me half to death with talk of people jumping off of buildings thinking they could fly. I live in a 5 story home. I'd rather not find out if I can fly off of it. Haha.

Anyway, thanks again for your response. I DO want to get off of the opiates so very much and if this would be an option for that then I would definitely give it a try. It's just the fear I suppose of the "unknown" keeping me away. And since this would be a Ketamine pump for 24 hour pain relief I suppose I could just not turn the pump on if I begin to feel like bat woman? All joking aside, to you and to anyone else is the hallucinatory effect THAT bad? That's my only and biggest concern.